Tableau Desktop Contract Job Trends

Tableau Desktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Tableau Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 556 623
Rank change year-on-year +8 +67 +194
Contract jobs citing Tableau Desktop 9 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.003% 0.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.015% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £253 - £378
25th Percentile £267 £494 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 £513 £506
Median % change year-on-year -34.83% +1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £419 £531 £659
90th Percentile £479 - £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £253 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -50.68% +2.50% -4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Tableau Desktop falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,088 6,568 8,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.20% 17.73% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 4,416 5,618
10th Percentile £338 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £732 £778 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 89 160
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £25.13
Median hourly rate £40.49 £30.21 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -39.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.60 £70.10 £78.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +24.93% -38.78% +20.30%

Tableau Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tableau Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Tableau Desktop job vacancy trend in the UK

Tableau Desktop
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tableau Desktop over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tableau Desktop in the UK

Tableau Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tableau Desktop within the UK over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 9 £334 - 7
London - 7 £400 - 5
Work from Home +22 2 £475 -7.32% 5
UK excluding London -5 2 £253 -50.68% 5
South East - 2 £253 - 4

Tableau Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Tableau
2 7 (77.78%) Tableau Server
3 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Portuguese Language
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
5 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau Certification
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft